Undergraduate Bags 14-Year Jail Term For Kidnapping
Ndudi Ogwu, a student of the Delta State Polytechnic, Ogwashi-Uku, and Chukwudi Ifemeni, a businessman, were on Tuesday sentenced to 14 years of imprisonment by a Delta State High Court for kidnapping a nurse.
The convicts were sentenced with hard labour to 10 years for kidnapping and to four years for conspiracy.
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The court held that the prosecution had proved its case against the businessman and the ND II mechanical engineering student beyond reasonable doubt and thus convicted and sentenced them accordingly.
According to the prosecutor, Ogwu and Ifemeni with two others now at large kidnapped one Mrs. Kate Okogu, wife of Mr. Paul Okogu, a politician on and Chukwudi Ifemeni.
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The prosecutor said the abductors took their victim to a forest along Isoko-Patani Road where she was kept, but was fortunately rescued by a team of soldiers the next day.
The prosecutor said the convicts admitted the crime in their confessional statements, but later tried to deny it during trial.
Source: Legit.ng
